Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The drive back to Silver Moon Harbor felt like racing through a nightmare where the road kept stretching longer with each mile, no

matter how hard I pressed the accelerator. My hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles had gone white, and I could taste copper in my mouth from where I’d bitten my lip hard enough to draw blood.

My phone had gone completely black after that final call with Ophelia, the screen cracked and unresponsive no matter how frantically I

pressed the power button. Now it was nothing but a useless piece of plastic and metal, cutting me off from any updates about Adrian’s

situation.

“Please,” I whispered to any god who might be listening, pressing the dead phone against my chest like a talisman. “Please let him be safe.

I’ll do anything. Just let my baby be okay.”

The moment I reached the school parking lot, I was out of the car and running toward the building on legs that felt like jelly. My high

heels clicked frantically against the asphalt as I raced toward the main entrance, my heart hammering so hard against my ribs I thought

it might burst.

The front doors were locked-of course they were locked, school had ended hours ago. I pounded on the glass with both fists, not caring

that I probably looked like a madwoman, until a janitor finally appeared from somewhere in the depths of the building.

“Ma’am, school’s been closed for-”

“My son!” I gasped, pressing my face against the glass. “Someone took my son! I need to speak with his teacher, with anyone who was

here, please!”

The janitor’s expression softened as he took in my obvious distress. He unlocked the door and stepped aside to let me in. “What’s your boy’s name? I can try calling Mrs. Henderson at home.”

“Adrian Knight,” I said, my voice breaking on his name. “He’s in Mrs. Henderson’s class. Someone picked him up who wasn’t supposed to.”

Mrs. Henderson arrived within twenty minutes. She found me sitting in the hallway outside her classroom, my head in my hands as I

keep breathing through the panic attacks that kept

dear, what’s

from crying. “Someone took Adrian. You let someone

his aunt. She had identification-her last name was

work and had asked her to pick

managed to ask, though I already

Henderson trailed off,

Of course it

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written across her kind face. “I need to borrow your phone. Mine was damaged, and I need to call someone who might

were shaking so badly I could barely manage to remove my SIM card from the broken device and insert it into

Henderson’s phone.

I dialed Valerie’s number from memory. My blood turned to ice as the

in the empty

on the

is my son?” I didn’t bother with greetings or pleasantries. “Valerie, I swear to God, if you’ve

bubbled through the speaker with

instead of committing kidnapping. “My, my,

Son.” Each word came out sharp as

Probably.” Her laugh was light and musical. “I really

from collapsing as the implications of her words hit me

Valerie, he’s four years old! Where

now, no need to get hysterical,” Valerie said. “I’m sure he’ll turn up eventually. Children usually do, don’t they? Well, most

anyway.”

kill you,” I whispered, my voice carrying every ounce of maternal fury I possessed. “I will tear your throat out

you bleed to death if anything happens to

violence! Really, Sera, motherhood hasn’t improved your temper at all.” Valerie’s voice was positively dripping with false

tell you where

The words tasted like ash

is quite generous-he’s even willing to raise that little bastard as

already told you no,” I said, my voice growing stronger with each word. “I’m not

Valerie said. “Because if you don’t show up at the Knight house within

proposal, well… let’s just say little Adrian might have a very lonely night in